Hello, it’s about time we give you an update on what we’ve been up to in the past few months.
Services
We did a lot of infrastructure work in the last few months, and we have a lot of services running now. Here’s a brief list of what we have:
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Google Workspace Every member of the space now has a @muhack.org email address that can be used to access all Google Workspace services, as well as all muhack-related services. See here the policies.
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SSO Through the Google Workspace account (and a KeyCloak instance), you can now log in to all our services with a single account. This can also be used with any future project built at the space, just let the sysadmins know if you need it.
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Wiki We finally have a wiki! It’s available at wiki.muhack.org and it’s meant to be a place where we can document our projects, share knowledge, and keep track of everything we do. It’s still a work in progress, but please feel free to contribute!
On the sidebar you can find links to the most important pages.
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VPN We have a Tailscale VPN to access the internal network from anywhere, especially the services running on servers located in the space. See here for more details.
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Servers There are now 2 servers running in the space, both in a Proxmox cluster. One is more focused on CPU-intensive tasks, while the other has a couple of GPUs for AI and stuff. One of these GPUs has been donated by NVIDIA, and we are very grateful for that.
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Status monitor There is a status monitor website available at status.muhack.org that shows the status of all our services. See the wiki page for more details.
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Open WebUI We have an Open WebUI instance to play around with our local AI models.
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Much more Take a look at the whitepages on the wiki to see a complete list of all the services we have running and how to access them.
Projects
Some of the projects we started are moving forward, like the electronic parts inventory: all the SMD components are now in our partsbox inventory (thanks again to Jan for the free organization account). We still need to find a way to organize the through-hole components, but we have a plan for that too.
Wishlist
We have a wishlist for things we need to improve the space and the projects we’re working on. If you have any of those things lying around and you’d like to donate them, please let us know!
Tshirts
We have a new t-shirt design, and we’re going to print them soon. Take a look on the wiki for more details. Thanks, Mattia!
Failed ideas
Well, it seems that we’re not going to have a bank account anytime soon, as the Italian government really hates small associations… We’d have to pay 100€ a year just to have a bank account, and honestly we have better ways to use that money. We’ll see if we can find some funds to cover the costs next year.
Conclusion
We still have a lot of work to do, but we’re making progress and we’re excited about the future of the space. The infrastructure is getting there, and we’re looking forward to having more members join us and contribute to the projects we’re working on :)